# Create Filter by Location Accuracy

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-by-location-accuracy/298>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-by-location-accuracy/298 "2019-02-20T19:56:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-by-location-accuracy/298/6 "2019-03-04T20:36:54Z")

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Ok, just added a few more API parameters that will work in obs search and Identify. No UI yet, maybe never since these features are very niche, IMO. Here they are, with examples:

- `acc`: Boolean to filter on whether or not observations have a `positional_accuracy`, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=kueda&acc=false](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=kueda&acc=false)
- `acc_above`: Show observations with positional\_accuracy above a given value, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=kueda&acc\_above=10000](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=kueda&acc_above=10000)
- `acc_below`: Show observations with positional\_accuracy below a given value, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=kueda&acc\_below=3](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=kueda&acc_below=3)

> [@reuvenm](#):
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> A filter to show/hide obscured and/or unobscured observations (and maybe even a way to distinguish auto-obscured vs. manually obscured observations.

Not quite the same, but the `geoprivacy` API parameter has existed for a while. It’s not in the UI because, well, like everything you’ve requested it’s really only of interest to a tiny fraction of power users, but here’s how you edit a URL to use it:

- Obs where geoprivacy is private: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?geoprivacy=private](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?geoprivacy=private)
- Obs by a single user where geoprivacy is obscured: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=kueda&geoprivacy=obscured](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=kueda&geoprivacy=obscured)
- Obs by a single user where geoprivacy is obscured or private: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=reuvenm&geoprivacy=obscured\_private](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=reuvenm&geoprivacy=obscured_private)

Searching by whether or not the coordinates were obscured because of a taxon’s conservation status (the `taxon_geoprivacy` param) was something we released like last week or something, but it works pretty much the same:

- Obs where taxon geoprivacy is private: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon\_geoprivacy=private](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_geoprivacy=private)
- Obs by a single user where taxon geoprivacy is obscured: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=kueda&taxon\_geoprivacy=obscured](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=kueda&taxon_geoprivacy=obscured)
- Obs by a single user where geoprivacy is obscured or private: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user\_id=reuvenm&taxon\_geoprivacy=obscured\_private](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=reuvenm&taxon_geoprivacy=obscured_private)

I should note that there’s still some work to be done here, specifically on the maps. I don’t think they’re using these new params just yet.

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